Theoretical basis of sound forest management

Despite the urgency of sustainable development in the forestry sector and available scientific achievements in thisfield in Russia and abroad, domestic science has gained a slight amount of research considering sustainable forest management as one ofthe main factors, which in today's economic conditions contribute to the achievement of sustainable development of ecological andeconomic systems. Native forest science has a considerable scientific basis, which is not used in practice because of the extensive forestry.To provide scientific forest industry the important and urgent problems are justification of effective economic mechanism to overcomethe crisis, stabilization sustainable development and management of forests. Scientists should be most important participants in thedevelopment of public forest policy at the regional and federal levels, and in appropriate programs for the forest sector development andsustainable forest management based on it. There are now urgent issues of interaction between nature and society. A number of resourcesneeded to implement the social production began to decrease. There is no doubt that humanity exists at the expense of the environment,and that the biosphere provides the human with all the matter, energy and information necessary for its normal life. Lack ofsound scientific monitoring and regulation of the intensive development of the humankind can lead to complete depletion of the biosphere,and make the existence of human beings impossible. In many countries the development of humankind has not been possibledue to catastrophic environmental changes. Therefore, the issues of environmental management in today's conditions are highly relevant.There is an important issue of the feasibility of the idea of sustainable forest management in the framework of modern economicorganization of forest production and the existing forms of business, which manage forests. Russia's adoption of international economiccommunity standards in forest resources management means closer integration in the sphere of economic ties (economic, environmental,political). However, in most Russian industrialized regions the methods and forms of forest management are far from matching theabove mentioned criteria of a sustainable forest sector development. Therefore, Russia's adoption of international obligations in the fieldof sustainable forest management indicate its long overdue need to adjust forestry legislation, the structure of forest management practicesand economic mechanisms of distribution of forest resources in the direction of their harmonization with the international standardsin this area.

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